Cherie Chenoweth has been at San Juan Unified School District for more than 20 years and has been responsible for multi-delivery procurement methods, developed and created cash flows for bond tracking and sales for three bonds equating to $1.2 billion. In her current position as Coordinator of Facilities Business & Compliance, overseeing fiscal and purchasing for construction, M&O and custodial, she is a driver of ensuring buildings are delivered properly at the District. The Distri...

Jim Dieter, ALN Chair and CEO will lead discussions on “Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI" by Yuval Noah Harari. Mr. Dieter says the book provides important new ways to think about information, networks, documents, bureaucracy, and more issues that are extremely relevant for asset leadership and asset management. Join us hereTuesday 25 Marchat 3pm Eastern: Zoom Meeting Syllabus Guidelines & Expectations ...

ALN Th@3 pm ET this week will address the false dichotomy of “We can’t afford to maintain our bridges.” We can’t afford not to. ALN Senior Fellows and guests will address the anniversary of the Key Bridge collapse and the Pittsburgh Fern Hallow Bridge in a panel on solutions to the challenge of maintaining public infrastructure. Panelists: - Marty Rowland, PhD, ALN Senior Fellow - Rich Culbertson, ALN Senior Fellow & Board of Directors Member - David Totman, Founder & CEO at WaterVe...

There are times to plant a flag in the calendar and say, “From this day forward things were different.” February 11, 2025, was such a day. That is when the Linux Foundation announced the acquisition of the Coalition for Smarter Buildings (C4SB) so it could be the entry into solving building industry operating system issues was such a date. Rick Justis, C4SB Executive Director, joins us this week to discuss the implications of the acquisition for not only facility asset management, but a...

Nicholas Johnson, Kahua's Chief Evangelist

Tacoma Zach is Co-Founder and CEO at MentorAPM. Jennifer Zach is Chief Marketing Officer for the technology-driven MentorAPM and has been an invaluable member of the ALN Board of Directors. As part of MentorAPM’s continual advancement of the Asset Management industry, the company has recently released Asset Lens an AI assisted asset assessment tool that allows anyone to take pictures of asset inventories and assets tags to quickly fill out an asset register and gain initial assessments....

The ALN and the Institute of Asset Management USA Chapter are happy to co-publish the "State Asset Management Initiatives for Water Systems". The paper provides a  State-by-State snapshot view of water asset management initiatives in the U.S. and a short case study of Palm Beach County Florida ISO 55001 certified water and wastewater system - the first to achieve this status in the U.S. Speakers: - Pollop Phonpornwithoon, Asst. Department Director Operations, Maintenance, Technology...

Anto Budiardjo, President, Padi, and Kimon Onuma, President, ONUMA, started 2025’s ALN Th@3 pm ET on a high note by agreeing that a main factor in organizations not realizing full value from assets that communicate with each other is owners not having an Asset Management governance system that covers all asset categories. During the discussion, Mr. Budiardjo indicated the Coalition for Smarter Buildings (www.C4SB.org) will be making an announcement in February that the Linux Foundation will...

George Guszcza, D. Eng., CEPM, CCM, graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point with BS in Sociology / Computer Information Systems Engineering. He also has a Doctor of Engineering from The George Washington University. He held numerous U.S. and overseas positions with the U.S. Army. He has also served in the U.S. Army Reserve and has almost 20 years of corporate and philanthropic work with organizations ranging from the United Nations to Michael Baker, where he served as Chief T...